Thanks to the kind people from Vice, I will be attending the Chapman Family gig at the NME awards in Camden – Barfly this Sunday.
Expect some pictures, little review and if the signal allows it, a live feed of what’s going on from twitter – @neocromagnon
After the historical Killing in the name to Christmas No 1 campaign ended with a glorious victory for the people of the kingdom of the internet, Rage Against the Machine, or RATM as known by friends, are keeping their promise of performing a free gig for the UK fans.
The 6 of June that is at Finsbury Park. Tickets to the event are all ‘sold out‘. I write that between quotation marks because they were given away for free. No tickets left, don’t try to find any.
I’ve got one by the way.
This is a list of my favourite live performances.
It is not a list about my favourite bands, songs or concerts, it is a list about those little clips that fascinate us for its power, or how the moment was recorded or the way the musicians felt the song that time or a combination of all of the above.
Obviously, it’s not only about the song or the band as the audience and how it was filmed or edited play a major part on how we’ll remember it.
The irony of this is that a live performance is meant to be something organic and dynamic, yet what we remember is the footage. Specific moments filmed by someone, and projected in our screens that set in stone the memory of that moment.
Probably like most of other people, my favourite live performances are some I actually never attended to.
I’ve been to my fare cut of live music, from small indie gigs in some London club to the big festivals and open air concerts in the park. But it’s these selection of clips from concerts that make the list of my favourite live performances, not organic and not dynamic but set in stone youtube and my memory.
In alphabetical order (after the jump)
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